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Increasing the throughput of the Transformer architecture, a foundational component used in numerous state-of-the-art models for vision and language tasks (e.g., GPT, LLaVa), is an important problem in machine learning. One recent and…

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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown success across a variety of tasks due to their ability to capture global image representations. Recent studies have identified the existence of high-norm tokens in ViTs, which can interfere with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Srikar Yellapragada , Kowshik Thopalli , Vivek Narayanaswamy , Wesam Sakla , Yang Liu , Yamen Mubarka , Dimitris Samaras , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

Vision Transformer (ViT) models have recently drawn much attention in computer vision due to their high model capability. However, ViT models suffer from huge number of parameters, restricting their applicability on devices with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Jinnian Zhang , Houwen Peng , Kan Wu , Mengchen Liu , Bin Xiao , Jianlong Fu , Lu Yuan

Mixup is a data augmentation technique that relies on training using random convex combinations of data points and their labels. In recent years, Mixup has become a standard primitive used in the training of state-of-the-art image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Muthu Chidambaram , Xiang Wang , Chenwei Wu , Rong Ge

Vision Transformers (ViTs) mark a revolutionary advance in neural networks with their token mixer's powerful global context capability. However, the pairwise token affinity and complex matrix operations limit its deployment on…

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Transformers have recently emerged as a powerful tool for learning visual representations. In this paper, we identify and characterize artifacts in feature maps of both supervised and self-supervised ViT networks. The artifacts correspond…

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The conventional success of textual classification relies on annotated data, and the new paradigm of pre-trained language models (PLMs) still requires a few labeled data for downstream tasks. However, in real-world applications, label noise…

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Vision Transformer models process input images by dividing them into a spatially regular grid of equal-size patches. Conversely, Transformers were originally introduced over natural language sequences, where each token represents a subword…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Tomer Ronen , Omer Levy , Avram Golbert

We present an approach to efficiently and effectively adapt a masked image modeling (MIM) pre-trained vanilla Vision Transformer (ViT) for object detection, which is based on our two novel observations: (i) A MIM pre-trained vanilla ViT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yuxin Fang , Shusheng Yang , Shijie Wang , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Xinggang Wang

Recent studies have integrated convolutions into transformers to introduce inductive bias and improve generalization performance. However, the static nature of conventional convolution prevents it from dynamically adapting to input…

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The input tokens to Vision Transformers carry little semantic meaning as they are defined as regular equal-sized patches of the input image, regardless of its content. However, processing uniform background areas of an image should not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jakob Drachmann Havtorn , Amelie Royer , Tijmen Blankevoort , Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi

Label noise in medical image classification datasets significantly hampers the training of supervised deep learning methods, undermining their generalizability. The test performance of a model tends to decrease as the label noise rate…

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Vision transformers are known to be more computationally and data-intensive than CNN models. These transformer models such as ViT, require all the input image tokens to learn the relationship among them. However, many of these tokens are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Foozhan Ataiefard , Walid Ahmed , Habib Hajimolahoseini , Saina Asani , Farnoosh Javadi , Mohammad Hassanpour , Omar Mohamed Awad , Austin Wen , Kangling Liu , Yang Liu

Detecting the positions of human hands and objects-in-contact (hand-object detection) in each video frame is vital for understanding human activities from videos. For training an object detector, a method called Mixup, which overlays two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Koya Tango , Takehiko Ohkawa , Ryosuke Furuta , Yoichi Sato

Transformers with powerful global relation modeling abilities have been introduced to fundamental computer vision tasks recently. As a typical example, the Vision Transformer (ViT) directly applies a pure transformer architecture on image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Xiaoyu Yue , Shuyang Sun , Zhanghui Kuang , Meng Wei , Philip Torr , Wayne Zhang , Dahua Lin

The use of self-supervised pre-training has emerged as a promising approach to enhance the performance of many different visual tasks. In this context, recent approaches have employed the Masked Image Modeling paradigm, which pre-trains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Lorenzo Baraldi , Roberto Amoroso , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Andrea Pilzer , Rita Cucchiara

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become one of the dominant architectures in computer vision, and pre-trained ViT models are commonly adapted to new tasks via fine-tuning. Recent works proposed several parameter-efficient transfer learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Imad Eddine Marouf , Enzo Tartaglione , Stéphane Lathuilière

Mix-up is a key technique for consistency regularization-based semi-supervised learning methods, blending two or more images to generate strong-perturbed samples for strong-weak pseudo supervision. Existing mix-up operations are performed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zhiqiang Shen , Peng Cao , Junming Su , Jinzhu Yang , Osmar R. Zaiane

Vision Transformers (ViT) have been shown to attain highly competitive performance for a wide range of vision applications, such as image classification, object detection and semantic image segmentation. In comparison to convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Andreas Steiner , Alexander Kolesnikov , Xiaohua Zhai , Ross Wightman , Jakob Uszkoreit , Lucas Beyer